Criminal Code Act 1907, making and distributing child abusive material or child pornography
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In force since 7 May 2008.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 7 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not make, print, publish, distribute, transmit, make available, sell, import or export any visual representation, including a computer-generated one, that shows a person under sixteen engaged in explicit sexual activity, or whose dominant characteristic is the sexual depiction of a sexual organ or the anal region of such a person.
If you get it wrong
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Criminal exposure note
Making, printing or publishing child abusive material or child pornography, and distributing, transmitting, making available, selling, importing or exporting it, are each liable on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years, or on summary conviction to imprisonment for five years. No fine is specified; the Act's stated sanction is imprisonment alone.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Bermuda Police Service, prosecuted by the Department of Public Prosecutions
What it reaches
Obligation class
Prohibition
What this law does
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Section 182F makes it an offence to knowingly make, print or publish child abusive material or child pornography, liable on conviction on indictment to ten years' imprisonment or on summary conviction to five years, and a separate offence to knowingly distribute, transmit, make available, sell, import or export such material, carrying the same penalties.
Child pornography is defined as a photograph, film, video or other visual representation, whether or not made by electronic or mechanical means, that shows a child who is, or is depicted as being, engaged in explicit sexual activity, or whose dominant characteristic is the depiction, for a sexual purpose, of a sexual organ or the anal region; the definition does not require the depicted child to be a real, identifiable individual, so a computer-generated or AI-synthesised depiction meeting it can fall within the ban. For sections 182C to 182H, "child" means a person under the age of sixteen.
When LexLint raises it
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